In keeping with this Inauguration Day mandates to secure the southwest border, President Donald Trump has ordered Cabinet secretaries to station troops in the Roosevelt Reservation.
Directed at the secretaries of defense, interior, agriculture, and homeland security, the memorandum gives the Cabinet members wide authority to secure lands there for a border wall and monitoring technology.
President Theodore Roosevelt designated the reservation to provide a buffer against illegal smuggling from Mexico.
As Trump moved to further secure the border, a far-left judge in Massachusetts blocked Trump’s revocation of parole for more than half-a-million illegals unlawfully imported by the Biden administration.
Day 1 Actions
Just after taking the oath office on January 20, Trump published myriad executive orders to seal the southwest and stop the invasion that was invited, subsidized, and technologically assisted by the Biden administration.
First among them was declaring a national emergency.
“America’s sovereignty is under attack,” Trump wrote:
Our southern border is overrun by cartels, criminal gangs, known terrorists, human traffickers, smugglers, unvetted military-age males from foreign adversaries, and illicit narcotics that harm Americans.
That declaration segued into an order that declared MS-13, Tren de Aragua, and other gangs and the drug cartels as terrorist organizations. This enabled Trump to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to summarily deport illegal-alien gang and cartel members.
Trump also directed the U.S. Northern Command to “to seal the borders and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States by repelling forms of invasion including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities.”
Those opened the way to militarize the Roosevelt Reservation, proclaimed by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907.
The 26th president declared that “a strip of land lying along the boundary line between the United States and the Republic of Mexico be reserved from the operation of the public land laws and kept free from obstruction as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and said Republic.”
Roosevelt “reserved from entry, settlement or other form of appropriation under the public land laws and set apart as a public reservation, all public lands within 60 feet of the international boundary between the United States and the Republic of Mexico, within the State of California and the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico.”
The reservation does not extend into Texas. But there, as observers noted, Governor Greg Abbott has helped secure the border with the National Guard.
Trump Memorandum
Now, to continue that mission, Trump’s memorandum provides “additional guidance.”
The memorandum gives the Defense Department jurisdiction over all public lands in the reservation, excluding Indian reservations, “that are reasonably necessary to enable military activities directed in this memorandum, including border-barrier construction and emplacement of detection and monitoring equipment.”
The memorandum also gives Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth the authority to mobilize national guardsmen to support Pentagon border activities. And if requested by the attorney general or homeland security secretary, he can detail them for “law enforcement activities.”
When a court will declare that Trump’s memorandum is unlawful is unknown. But if the far-left-controlled federal courts continue what yet another judge did yesterday, it won’t be long.
That judge claims to have the power to block the administration from ending the legal status of some 530,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan illegals. Again, the Biden administration unlawfully imported them.
Parole Ended
As The New American reported in March, Trump ended the “parole” that Biden confirmed on the army of invaders, some 530,000 of whom he flew directly into the country. Those “migrants” almost immediately embarked on a nationwide crime wave. In any event, their legal status ended with a notice from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The illegals also received a letter from DHS.
“Your parole will terminate upon the earlier of (1) your original parole expiration date or (2) April 24, 2025,” the letter warns:
You should depart the United States now, but no later than the date of the termination of your parole. Failure to timely depart may have adverse immigration consequences.
As of the termination of your parole, you may be subject to expedited removal pursuant to section 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) or removal proceedings pursuant to section 240 of the INA, either of which may result in your removal, unless you have departed from the United States or have obtained a lawful basis to remain within the United States.
“Parolees” who stay in the country for six months or longer after parole expires could be declared forever inadmissible after they leave, the letter says.
Employment authorization also terminates. Decision to revoke employment authorization is final and unappealable.
Out of Control Judge
But now, Indira Talwani, of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts — and appointed by former President Barack Obama — says Noem’s order was “unconstitutional.”
Talwani clearly hopes to block the administration from ever deporting the illegals. Each of the 530,000 illegals, she declared, must have a separate removal hearing.
Is hereby STAYED pending further court order insofar as it revokes, without case-by-case review, the previously granted parole and work authorization issued to noncitizens paroled into the United States. [Emphasis added.]
Talwalni is apparently unaware that the original parole was, again, unlawful.
As the articles of impeachment against former Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas noted, the unindicted visa fraudster unlawfully granted a mass parole. U.S. immigration law provides for paroles on a case-by-case basis.
As well, the articles noted, Congress did not authorize the parole programs that “enabled hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens to enter the United States in violation of the laws enacted by Congress.”
